8.5 million people live in New York City and nearly 60,500 of those people go to NYU. In 2021, one of them flew 9,400 miles from Kuala Lumpur to get there. Another flew 4,970 miles from Honolulu. Together they traveled more than 14,000 miles to end up in the same library, at the same table, pretending to study. They never really studied. “We would end up just listening to music or scrolling through Spotify together,” Natalya recalls, laughing a little at the memory. The textb

At only 20 years old, Kuru is already carving out serious space in the underground music scene. Widely known for stitching digicore habits into blown-out rage production, his latest album, Backstage Hologram, didn’t take long to land with listeners. The 15-track project moves at a fast pace and brings in notable names like Lucy Bedroque, xaviersobased, and katmoji. This impressive lineup says a lot about how deeply plugged-in the young producer and artist has become within hi

What happens when you assemble a team of fifteen musical powerhouses and give them absolute creative freedom? See You Next Year, which initially launched in 2021, is a compilation album series from Pigeons & Planes and Big.Ass.Kids that features a diverse group of insanely talented emerging artists. In May 2026, the third compilation album in the series, See You Next Year 3, was released. See You Next Year 3 boasts a stacked lineup comprised of fifteen of the most exciting ar